This blog is hosted on behalf of the ACR/ATR Chapter Committee, a group seeking ACR/ATR chapters in the UFT, advocating for ourselves and offering mutual support.
We welcome testimonials of your concerns and troubles as a displaced teacher, librarian, secretary, guidance counselor, social worker, psychologist, or speech or hearing therapist in rotation for the NYC DOE. Email to atrnyc@gmail.com

ATRs, the unrepresented -- no elected representatives in the UFT

"The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected."To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another." Thomas Paine, First Principles of Government

The 401(k) … is one of the only products that Americans buy that they don’t know the price of it. It’s also one of the products that Americans buy that they don’t even know its quality or know how to judge its quality.